{"id":816604,"date":"2026-07-22T13:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/816604\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T13:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:22:10","slug":"thrift-shopper-paid-3-for-wilt-chamberlains-nba-finals-warm-up-jacket-how-much-did-it-sell-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/816604\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrift Shopper Paid $3 for Wilt Chamberlain&#8217;s NBA Finals Warm-Up Jacket, How Much Did It Sell For?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">One teenager unwittingly purchased a part of NBA history and gained a handsome profit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Oregon resident Quinn Brown bought a Lakers warmup jacket at a thrift store in January, paying $3.07. It wound up being a game-worn jacket of Wilt Chamberlain&#8217;s from the 1972 NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Brown sold the jacket at auction for $89,600 on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">&#8220;I didn&#8217;t even think that finding something like this was possible,&#8221; Brown told the Associated Press&#8217; <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/auction-lakers-jacket-wilt-chamberlain-thrift-store-3d664d9fe306818b9a828357aa2a9a9f\">Claire Rush<\/a>. &#8220;I got very, very lucky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Sotheby&#8217;s, which handled the auction, verified the authenticity of the jacket by looking at photos from the 1972 Finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The Lakers beat the New York Knicks in five games that year to win their sixth title. Chamberlain was the MVP of the series after averaging 19.4 points and 23.2 rebounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One teenager unwittingly purchased a part of NBA history and gained a handsome profit. Oregon resident Quinn Brown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-816604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}